Notetaking and Report Writing

by Herman Ohme, Ed.D.

The best ways to retain information from textbooks, lectures, and other sources. How to select, research, organize, draft, write, and present a written or oral report.

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Notetaking and Report Writing, ISBN 0-936047-11-9, 56 pages, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, softcover. $7.00.

Notetaking and Report Writing Skills are Essential for Success in School

Notetaking

"The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory." (Chinese proverb)

Students will learn how to get the most out of textbooks, lectures, and other sources of information. They will learn how to:

Select the proper information from required written material.

Listen, analyze, and select important facts from a demonstration (science and math classes), lectures, and other visual or spoken sources of information.

Take good notes on all information, then summarize the notes in the form of a Visual Map or other method that indicates the relationships of topics and sub-topics.

Report Writing

Students will learn how to prepare and present written and oral reports. The five key steps are:

Make the best choice of subject.

Do the proper research.

Organize, select and condense the information.

Draft and revise the final report.

Make the best possible presentation.

Copyright 2005-2008: Herman Ohme